Malcolm Millner

Malcolm Millner (11 August 1833-1868) was a British businessman who owned an omnibus company, the Millner Company, in London from 1864 until his death in an accident in 1868.

Biography
Malcolm Millner was the oldest of five children born to a carpenter and a homemaker in Southwark. As the first born, his parents expected great things from him, and time after time, they were disappointed. While his siblings grew up to be bank clerks, crewmen, and teachers, Malcolm had a hard time grasping basic concepts. He was dyslexic, and he would lash out violently at school, leaving home when he was a teenager. Millner's name didn't appear again until 1864, when public records showed him acquiring the Greater London Omnibus Company and renaming it the Millner Company. Starrick Industries bought out the Millner Company in 1867, around the time that Millner himself was being investigated for arson, assault, and murder. the investigations suddenly stopped that year as well - one of the benefits of working for Crawford Starrick, no doubt.

In 1868, he came between Starrick and his cousin Pearl Attaway in a rivalry with Attaway, sabotaging her Attaway Transport company. Attaway tricked Rooks gang leader Jacob Frye into acting against Millner; he burnt down his omnibus company, stole internal combustion machine plans for Attaway, and destroyed his Thames River ferries. Attaway then sent him to kill Millner, and he did so by throwing a knife at a rope holding up a cargo net, causing for the cargo to fall on Millner. In his last words, Millner revealed that Attaway and Starrick were family, causing Frye to realize that he had been fooled.